Attention:
1) Possible spoilers.
2) This is the translation of a post that I've published the Saturday right here on Steemit. If you're a Spanish native speaker or a Spanish learner, you can read the Spanish version here.
I have to admit that I inmediately laughed when I watched the trailer on the first time. I mean, the trailer seemed to be something of dark humor since not everyday I find a movie where Karl Marx, the author of The Capital, is a murder's suspect. Nevertheless, the movie had a certain (and healthy, let's say) dosis of gore and horror pretty faithful to the mystery genre.
Based in the book Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem by the British author Peter Ackroyd, which was published in 1994 (and which I added to my list of to-read), the movie introduces us to a Victorian London terrified by the horrible murders in the Limehouse Street, crimes that the police were desperate to "shelve" before the fierce criticism of the press in seeking culprits. Therefore, they resorted to the Scotland Yard inspector John Kildare, who is played by the old Davy Jones, sorry, I mean by a Bill Nighy that, literally, gave all of himself to do a masterful interpretation of someone who needs to reach the ultimate conclusion in order to demonstrate that the murderer, who borrowed the name of a character from the Hebrew mythology, was a such John Cree, whom spouse, Elizabeth, had poisoned him to prevent that the monster continue to acting up on the streets.
In the midst of that walk, of that chase that gradually became a mental game imposed by the killer, the policeman will be interrogating Dan Leno, Karl Marx and George Gissing, the main suspects in the deaths due that they paradoxically shared table with John Cree. In the midst of these avatars, Kildare is interweaving the threads andm he will discover the main and amazing reason for his crimes.
Without a doubt the story takes us back to that London that very few have dared to look beyond the magnificent magic of the Industrial Revolution and the Victorian era, but I have to point out that there were moments where you felt a kind of not-very-subtle highs and lows, but which fortunately it manages to recover with different turns in the plot.
If you are looking for a film of this genre, then here is this interesting recommendation. See ya!
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Consulted source
"The Limehouse Golem", in Wikipedia.
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